Around this time each year, in the middle of a week, Catholics across the world show up for work or school, at the gym or on the bus or in the checkout line at the grocery, with what looks like a ...

In this chilling, incisive study of the secret fears and obsessions of an aging writer, eminent Japanese author Endo examines the uncertain territory that lies between studying acts of violence and ...

“Hatred can always change to love. When one can say to God, ‘I hate you,’ it is like saying, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ With these words authentic prayer begins.” America‘s editors in ...

The historical drama 'Silence' is based upon the 1966 novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo and is set in seventeenth century Japan where Christianity was forbidden. The film follows two Portugese ...

Martin Scorsese opens his foreword to the latest edition of Shusaku Endo’s Silence with a simple, impossible question: “How do you tell the story of Christian faith?” The director isn’t presumptuous ...

Martin Scorsese is in the final few days of shooting “Silence,” his historical drama about faith and religion. Some 14 weeks of photography in Taipei will be completed May 15. At a press event in ...